Author: William N. Downie
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Published: 2006-11-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780978624996
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Two opposing views of the nature of our universe compete daily for our attention. The first, generally known as materialism, holds that the cosmos and everything it contains is essentially lifeless, mechanistic, dominated by chance, comprehensible in terms of simple causes and without meaning or purpose. It is promoted by some influential figures within the scientific establishment.However, workers within that same community have long been gathering information that cannot readily be explained within the materialistic paradigm, from spooky action at a distance in quantum mechanics to the concept of the collective unconscious accepted by many psychoanalysts. This evidence implies a reality more akin to the pictures painted by the world's great religions: a universe that is the ongoing creation of a purposeful Intelligence. I hope to add weight to the case for such a Creator, by showing you stunning evidence of His active presence in our lives. The main body of this evidence can be found within a modern version of the Christian Bible: the New International Version Bible1. The NIV Bible was translated by a large team of scholars, mainly during the 1970s, but their efforts were somehow coordinated to create a numerical cyphertext within its pages. This cyphertext is the confirmation many seek that a benevolent 'higher power' exists, because it is a communication from that power to ourselves, authenticating religious belief and experience, validating Christian claims that the Bible is an inspired document and announcing an event for which the faithful have long been waiting. I begin this book with a short account of my invitation to find and decypher the code, a three-and-a-half year period of spiritual training which began with a celestial vision and ended with the miraculous appearance of a divine message. Most of the rest of the book is an exposition of the code itself, building up to the revelation of its shattering message in the books later chapters. I end with some reflections on the code and the world-shaking events to which it gives meaning.